Persecution-Related Deaths of 14 More Practitioners Verified in March 2006

May 01, 2006 | By Minghui/Clearwisdom correspondent Li Ming

(Clearwisdom.net) Public channels of information in March 2006 have
verified the torture deaths of 14 Falun Gong practitioners from Mainland China.
Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under Jiang's direction began
persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, a total of 2,855 practitioners have
been verified to have been tortured to death.

The genocidal persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP and Jiang's regime has
continued for close to seven years. The regime has brutally tortured Falun Gong
practitioners to death and also imposed tight restrictions on information
related to the persecution. The torture deaths reported publicly on
Clearwisdom.net and verified through public channels are only the tip of the
iceberg. Recent news of the atrocities in Sujiatun Concentration Camp in
Shenyang City revealed that the CCP has not only illegally detained a huge
number of Falun Gong practitioners, but also reaped huge profits through the
appalling practice of harvesting organs from live practitioners and disposing
their bodies immediately. The contemptible brutality of this horrendous crime is
reminiscent of the past atrocities of the Nazis.

Among the 14 verified deaths from torture in March, seven of the
practitioners died between January and March and three of them were persecuted
to death in March 2006. Based on initial statistics, at least 30 Mainland China
practitioners were persecuted to death between January and March 2006.

The 14 deaths took place in eight provinces and municipalities: three cases
each in Hubei and Sichuan Provinces, two each in Heilongjiang and Jilin
Provinces, one each in Hebei, Shandong, Hunan, and Jiangsu Provinces. Eight of
them, or 57 percent, were women. Six of these practitioners were over 55 years
of age, which accounts for 43 percent of the deaths. Four of them were over 70
years of age.

Senior citizens brutally tortured, pass away

Mr. Wang Zengren was from Gaodou Village, Yangjia Town in the Jingyang
District of Deyang City. He had retired from the first division of the
Mechanical Construction Company in Sichuan Province. Before practicing Falun
Gong, he had heart disease, diabetes, and rectal cancer. Mr. Wang began to
practice Falun Gong in 1997, and in two years, all his diseases disappeared
without further treatment. He felt the happiness of being free of pain.

After the persecution began, Mr. Wang was detained three times because he
clarified the truth about Falun Gong. Police ransacked his home many
times and confiscated two years' salary totaling 32,000 yuan. The
director of the Jingyang District Police Department, Xiang Huaming, police
officer Lin Dexi, Gaodou Village security officer Yu Yunshou, and others
directly participated in making the illegal arrests and detentions.
They ransacked Mr. Wang's home. They also seized him and his wife, Tian
Xingqiong, and took them to the local police station. Mr. Wang and his wife were
not allowed to sleep, and they were bitten by mosquitoes all night.

On August 23, 2002, Mr. Wang Zengren was again arrested. This time it was
because he took part in a Falun Gong group practice with 92 people. On September
25, 2002, he was deceived by Yangjia police chief Xiang Huaming into going to
the Gongnong Village Police Station. He was illegally detained in the Deyang
City Detention Center for nine months. Then he was sentenced to two years of
forced labor. While Mr. Wang was detained in Deyang City Prison, the guards
brutally tortured him. The following is what Wang Zengren said before his death:
"On the morning of August 4, two guards told me to go to the health office
at the gate. One of them, Cui, said I should stand by the window. He then told
me to bend toward the windowsill. He wiped my head with an unknown drug and I
fainted suddenly." Mr. Wang was injected with unknown drugs and was kept
unconscious for over 10 days. He was incontinent, suffered anal erosion, his
legs were swollen, and he could not walk. His head had two holes in it from the
beatings he received. He passed away on January 29, 2006.

On October 2, 1999, Mr. Qi went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution
of Falun Dafa. As a result, his property was confiscated and he was sent to a
brainwashing center twice and fined several thousand yuan. Later on, he was sent
to a forced labor camp for two years. During his imprisonment Mr. Qi suffered
from all kinds of cruel torture. He was forced to sit on the cold concrete floor
from 6:00 a.m. in the morning to 10:00 p.m. in the evening. He was not allowed
to sleep. If he was found sleeping, they would put a bug in his ear or stab him
with needles. There was no heat in the room. Because of the lack of food Mr. Qi
was very weak. While in the prison, Mr. Qi was also forced to sleep on the floor
next to the toilet and was not provided a blanket in the winter. Mr. Qi was
tortured in an effort to extort a "confession" from him. He was
exposed to extreme heat or forced to stand in the pouring rain until he passed
out. The police used wooden sticks to beat him until he was bruised all over.
Under the CCP's long-term persecution of both his body and spirit, Mr. Qi died
on February 28, 2006.

Retired teacher Ms. Zhu Dafeng was beaten to death by police; her young
daughter, seeking justice, was threatened with dismissal from her job

Ms. Zhu Dafeng, 60 years old, lived on Zhongnan Street in the Wuchang
District of Wuhan City. She was a retired teacher. Her husband works at the
Hubei Province Police Department, her younger daughter and son-in-law work in
police stations, and her older daughter works in a prison. Ms. Zhu Dafeng had
been actively clarifying the truth to people with her personal savings by
mailing letters and other methods.

On March 5, 2003, two Falun Dafa banners appeared on the 10th
Building of the Hubei Province Police Department compound. That same day, Ms.
Zhu Dafeng and another practitioner (name unknown, an elderly lady) were
arrested, detained for one month, and then forced to go through another month of
brainwashing and torture.

On March 1, 2006, Mr. Zhu's husband called the Zhongnan Street Police Station
to report her. A group of policemen arrived. They carried Ms. Zhu downstairs and
threw her into the police vehicle. Ms. Zhu resisted the illegal arrest and was
beaten unconscious in the vehicle. She was directly sent to the Armed Police
Hospital for emergency treatment. She was totally covered with bruises from her
lower back down to her thighs. Her blood pressure was abnormal, and she died
within five days. Her body was cremated. Ms. Zhu's younger daughter, who is a
police officer, tried to seek justice over her mother's death but was threatened
with dismissal from her job.

Refusing to be "transformed," Ms. Zhu Yunfang was beaten to death
by inmates at the instigation of police officer Zhang Xiaofang

Police officer Zhang Xiaofang in the 7th Brigade of the Nanmusi
Women's Labor Camp in Zizhong City, Sichuan Province, is one of the CCP's
"Ten Most Outstanding Youths in the Nation." Her false claim is:
"If Falun Gong practitioners are not beating or cursing others, they are
not 'transformed' completely." Zhang forced many practitioners to stand or
squat for prolonged periods of time. She didn't allow practitioners to take
showers, brush their teeth, or wash their hands. She instigated drug addicts to
burn women practitioners' nipples, slap their faces, and pinch them. She also
incited inmates to stuff practitioners' mouths with stinky socks. She didn't
allow practitioners to go to the bathroom, and forced them relieve themselves in
their beds or in their pants. Then she forced practitioners to take off their
coats to wipe up the urine on the floor. She also spit in practitioners' food.

Practitioner Ms. Zhu Yunfan, 50 years old, was detained in the 7th
Brigade of the Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp. Because she refused to give up her
belief, she was brutally beaten in the bathroom by inmates instigated by Zhang
Xiaofang. She was stepped on and kicked on her chest and stomach and was beaten
to death.

At 9:00 a.m. on April 26, 2006, Zhang Xiaofang instigated drug addicts Zhuang
Xiaoling and Chen Lingyan to drag Ms. Zhu Yunfang to the third floor in the 7th
Brigade to force feed her medicines. Around 11:00 a.m., four drug addicts,
including Chen Lingyan and Zhuang Xiaoling, dragged Ms. Zhu Yunfang to the first
floor from the third floor. With the encouragement of on-duty police officer Pan
Rong, two inmates stomped on Ms. Zhu Yunfang's knees, pulled her into a
bathroom, locked the door, and savagely beat her. Ms. Zhu Yunfang's screams and
cries were heard for a long time.

Young lecturer from Changzhou, Wu Dianhui, persecuted to death, leaving a
five-year-old son

Practitioner Mr. Wu Diahui, 34, was a young lecturer employed by Changzhou
City Normal College in Jiangsu Province. In order to persecute him, his employer
and city police locked him in a mental hospital, a tuberculosis hospital, and a
labor camp. This severely damaged Mr. Wu's health, and he died of tuberculosis
on February 11, 2006.

Mr. Wu Dianhui earned his Master's Degree from Shanghai Eastern China Normal
University. He was employed by Changzhou City Normal College in Jiangsu
Province. On October 30, 1999, Mr. Wu was arrested along with his wife while
they were resting in Tiananmen Square. They were brutally beaten in the police
vehicle. Returning to Changzhou City, they were locked in a brainwashing center
for 10 days. Mr. Wu was tortured by being forced to stand for three entire days
by Cultural Security Officer Yao (in charge of the Campus Security of Colleges
in Changzhou City) of the Changzhou City Police Department. Later, the Changzhou
City Normal College forced the young couple to do physical labor instead of
teaching, and took away their promised family housing.

In early April 2000, Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun
Gong and was detained in the Changzhou City Police Department. After he was
released, his employer and personnel office employees from the Changzhou City
Higher Education Committee broke into his rental house off campus.

On May 1, 2001, local police secretly arrested Mr. Wu Dianhui on his way home
from visiting his teachers and classmates in Shanghai. After more than 10 days,
his family received a two-year forced labor sentencing statement. His son was
only eight months old at the time.

Mr. Wu was taken to the Jiangsu Province Dafengfangqiang Forced Labor Camp,
where he was tortured with electric baton shocks, deprived of sleep for over one
week, beaten by prisoners, locked in the small cell, and brutally force-fed,
among other abuse.

Mr. Wu was released on January 1, 2003. Due to severe injuries received in
the forced labor camp, Mr. Wu did not recover from the tuberculosis he had
contracted and became thinner and thinner. He was hospitalized twice and died on
February 11, 2006, leaving his wife, his five-year-old son, and his aged
parents.